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JOE BLASCOArticle From, "FANGORIA," July 1982-Issue #20

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Joe Blasco is a name that may be unfamiliar to most Make-up buffs, but Blasco is no stranger to the business. In fact, he is one of the pioneers of today’s state-of-the-art prosthetic Make-ups, having been taught the processes by the man who invented the formula for the rubber that is used for this technique, George Bau. Blasco was also probably the first to employ air-bladders to achieve the unique effect of bulging skin in David Cronenberg’s They Came From Within.

have it shown to the student body, and sold tickets to it with all proceeds going to the school’s scholarship fund. There was even a write-up in the local news paper about it to generate publicity. As it turned out, a local TV director had come by to see Blasco’s movie—and liked it. He invited Blasco to come to the studio to be interviewed on a talk show. Blasco in turn invited the principal of his school, and an administrator from the school district to come with him. The whole town was impressed with Blasco’s

He became interested the field of Make-up at the age of seven, when his aunt Nancy took him to the drugstore and bought him a copy of (what else?) Famous Monsters of Filmland. “I was fascinated from the start,” says Blasco. “The minute I saw Jack Pierce putting the finishing touches to Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein, I knew that was what I wanted to do.” When Halloween rolled around, his aunt (ever the instigator) bought him a boy Make-up kit. “Talk about ‘making a monster’,” laughs Joe, “I made up the entire neighborhood, not to mention my family.” By the fourth grade, Blasco had found Richard Corson’s book, Stage Make-up, in the school library and kept renewing it until he graduated on to high school. “I didn’t know that there were places one could go to actually buy books like that, ” Blasco recounts. “I mean,

enterprise and talent; another TV director in Pittsburgh was impressed enough to have Blasco come on his show, Chiller, a weekly horror/science fiction movie showcase, and do a Make-up every week, showing how each was done. By this time, Blasco’s talent was quite obvious, and it won him a scholarship to cosmetology school. After graduating in 1965 he got a job with Max Factor, who sent him to New York, and then, at last, to Hollywood. Says Blasco, “When I got there, they wanted to send me around the country as a representative of the company, but I didn’t want to leave Hollywood. My body began to rebel against the pressures I was under, and I broke out into the worst case of acne I’d ever had in my life. Needless to say, Max Factor decided I wasn’t exactly the best representative for cosmetics, so they didn’t

I’m the kid from a small farm town (North Irwin, Pennsylvania, 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh) and it never occurred to me at all. When graduation time began to come near, I got kind of panicky because I thought all this information would be lost to me since I wouldn’t be able to use that library again.” To avoid losing his source, Blasco brought the book to his geography class every day for the last week or so of school, and proceeded to copy—word for word—the entire book of stage Make-up . “The Make-up book fit neatly inside my geography book, so my teacher couldn’t see what I was doing. She thought I was doing homework!” Blasco still has the sheets of paper filled with Corson’s words. When Blasco finally got to high school, he met a friend, Frank Bolkovac, who wanted to be a cameraman. Together they made their own 8 mm films. One of the little movies, called “Vandar,” a horror yarn, was an hour long and had sound. Blasco wrote, directed, did the Make-up , and acted in it, and Bolkovac shot it. Joe, being the go- getter type, arranged to

send me. ” Blasco quit his job with Factor and put his last hundred dollars down on an apartment. “I had given the landlord the first and last month’s rent,” says Blasco, “so that meant I only had two months to find a job, or go back to Pennsylvania.” Blasco saw an ad in the paper for a job as a phone solicitor, and decided that was an opportunity to earn some money and to get in touch with those folks that he really wanted to work for: movie studios and Make-up people. “I spent most of my time calling the studios and setting up appointments to meet people the whole six months I was there.” He was supposed to be trying to sell magazines. However, he did manage to meet and talk to the folks he wanted to, and established some very good contacts. When he was through with the phones—he hadn’t sold any magazines—he decided to get a job that would pay better, and so became a copy-boy for the Los Angeles Times. Even then he would spend all of his spare time at ABC Television studios watching Rudy Horvatich doing Make-up for the shows that were

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